Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing. To make a good trial, a new charge was added: desertion. Private Schleicher, duly court-martialed, was resigned to getting five years in prison, when the Russians stepped in, shipped...
Caldwell said he was referring to college games generally, and not just the rough-and-tumble fray Saturday at Princeton, where 12 players on both teams had to be helped off the filed, and two suffered major injuries...
...Viking, by Edison Marshall, seems to be written expressly for readers who collect unusual sensations. For the ladies there is, for instance, the medieval equivalent of the cold shower: the feel of icy armor against warm bosom. For the men there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters...
...Coast Guard goes into the fray with the Jack Wood Trophy already on its shelf. Harvard is the New England dinghy champion...
...crime of Fray Efren de la Madre de Dios, in the eyes of Avila, had been to state flatly that St. Teresa was not born in Avila (where tourists are shown the very room she first opened her eyes in) but at her family's winter place in Gottarendura, some eight miles away. And, as if this were not enough, Fray Efren claimed that Teresa's grandfather had lived under a cloud for having converted himself and his family to Judaism (probably for business reasons), though later, under the urgings of the Inquisition, he repented and rejoined...